Notes

Published 1924 Williams & Norgate, Ltd., London W.C.2, copyright expired (author: L.A Waddell / Laurence Austine Waddell (1854–1938)). Waddell was a Contributor to ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 1909, and to HASTING'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF RELIGION AND ETHICS, 1908-1921.



OCR version of the 2nd edition (1925): https://archive.org/details/ThePhoenicianOriginOfBritonsScotsAnglo-saxons



Successor volume: https://archive.org/details/TheIndo-sumerianSealsDeciphered1925

"...Unfortunately however, the terminology for this racial type, to which the Sumerians belong as well as the Early Aryans, classic Greeks and Romans and many of the modern people of Europe, is in a very confused state through anthropologists including "Mediterraneans" amongst the "Caucasians," and using both terms ambiguously. ... In the absence of any better name for the broad-browed long-headed type, I have called it "Aryan," after its most characteristic group. In any case, the term "Nordic Race" is quite inapplicable as a synonym for "Aryan Race," as the Norse are only a late specialized branch of one section of the Aryans. In former works, following the current fashion, I was led or misled into using that term occasionally in such synonymous sense, though usually under protest as "the so-called Nordic race." But that term should now be wholly discarded in this connexion, if we would avoid needless confusion and anachronism."


--pp. ix-x, "Egyptian Civilization: Its Sumerian Origin & Real Chronology" (1930) (L.A. Waddell)




Book reviews of "The Phoenician Origin Of The Britons" taken from dust-wrapper of "The British Edda" (1930) and "The Aryan Origin of the Alphabet" (1927), also by Waddell:


"A most interesting book. It certainly appears to scratch out the 'pre' from the so-called 'prehistoric' period in which the origin of our island-ancestors was deemed 'lost.'" --Daily Mail.


"Dr Waddell's book exercises a convincing effect--his conclusions and discoveries are remarkable, and they are advanced in a manner essentially that of the scientific historian. Deduction follows deduction until the complete edifice stands revealed with every stone in place." --Literary Guide.


"Never before has the Phoenician theory of the Britons been presented so authoritatively and supported by such an imposing array of evidence." --Northern Whig.


"Is nothing short of a real romance--a book you have to tear yourself away from. Profusely and well illustrated--a fascinating book." --Birmingham Gazette.


"A book of remarkable and unusual interest, written in a very interesting manner. The facts and explanations are very striking and fill over 400 pages, interspersed with drawings of the monuments, coins, stone relics, ancient inscriptions, etc." --Newcastle Chronicle.


"Fascinating deductions of stimulating interest. The claim is all the more interesting because it approaches the subject from a new angle." --Western Morning News


"Proofs as convincing as they are laboriously worked out." --Daily Graphic.


"Remarkable and fascinating story of engrossing interest." -- British Weekly.


"Students of 'our mysterious ancestry' must now consult this work on British Origins, so learned and well illustrated." -- Glasgow Herald.


"A stupendous thing. A book of Truth stranger than Fiction--written in a clear and straightforward style that appeals to the average intelligent reader who has an interest in progress and the manner of that progress of his race." -- Globe, St. John, N.B.


"The book is packed with interesting facts from the latest authorities, and the illustrations are happily chosen. Indices are all that could be desired." -- Professor A. H. Sayce.


"The glory of descent from pure British stock has been greatly enhanced by an archaeological feat of the first rank." -- New York Evening Post.


"Offers good reading -- subject treated with insight and given attractive form. --Oxford Chronicle.


"One is almost constrained to believe the new theory. It provokes thought, and it ought to stimulate research into regions not sufficiently explored. We may be sure that many theories formulated and accepted in the past, even by careful and learned historians, will have to be abandoned." --Inquirer.


"Profoundly interesting volume. It cannot be put aside as a collection of hurried conclusions of a careless student. Lavishly illustrated. Pages of deep interest relating to the stone-circles of Stonehenge and Keswick, discovering engraved marks previously overlooked by other observers." --Daily Province, Vancouver.



See also: PRESTON, Christine: 'The Rise of Man in the Gardens of Sumeria: A Biography of L.A. Waddell' (2009)



"It can be shown that Sumerians who lived over five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia are almost identical in skull and face form with living Englishmen, and that predynastic Egyptian skulls can be matched both in a seventeenth century London plague pit, and in Neolithic cist-graves in Switzerland..."


--page 83, COON, CARLETON STEVENS: 'The Races of Europe' (1939)

https://archive.org/details/racesofeurope031695mbp